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| "And the more of it that is out there, the more thieves will be drawn to it. Bitcoin will eventually be the defacto valuable item to steal, however I see the
by josephagoss 13y ago
| "And the more of it that is out there, the more thieves will be drawn to it.
Bitcoin will eventually be the defacto valuable item to steal, however I see the community is in its early days and perhaps Bitcoin will lead to even safer computing as our operating systems will need to be more secure.
Theres a lot of things we can learn.
- Phlarp 13y agoA while back PG asked "what motive could a government actor have to create bitcoin?" Could the long game answer be "To teach the masses of idiot developers basic info security"? If you take a step back the whole thing is a pretty neat experiment in punishing poor security practices. As a soon to graduate computer science graduate, learning the in's and out's of bitcoin in the hope of making money has taught me way more about application security and the underlying crypto than four years of state schooling did.